Coaching Support Quotes

I wanted to become a well-rounded player.

Playing at Birmingham helped me grow as a goalkeeper: it made me better all round, being a regular part of a team.

I just want to show that Juve have done well to believe in me.

My coaches do all the breakdowns of my opponents, and I leave that up to them.

The coaches are there to bounce ideas off and stuff, but at the end of the day, they let us be us. We make our match, and we do 'us', you know what I mean?

The No. 1 job is to help a player reach their highest potential, and that's not possible without being able to relate with them. That's been helpful, and as far as my knowledge base is concerned, that stems from being around great coaches willing to share.

A lot of rookies don't come into the league and have that type of leeway that Coach Walton and his staff really gave me.

Talking to my mental coach definitely helps. I talk to her every week. Yeah, I mean, she's been helping me a lot, too.

Of course there is a lot of things you can work on and change and all that, but first I think you should look at yourself before you actually start trying to find excuse in the other people, whether it's going to be coach, physio, family, or whoever else is on your side.

I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff.

I started training with Fabricio Itte with my wrestling and high performance; I started spending a lot more time with my head coach Henry Perez and also my grappling coach Alex Prates. Those three are my core team, and they've made hugely important changes and skill enhancements with my game.

Frank Rijkaard put me in the first team when I was 17 and gave me every week the chance to play with the first team and start my way in football. I was so young and my dreams came true so quickly thanks to Rijkaard.

I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.

Erik Seidel ended up introducing me to some of the best players in the world, a few of whom also agreed to take me on to coach me. So I had access to the best poker minds in the world to help me study and figure things out.

I would love to play cricket today, with all - I am not just talking of money - the opportunity you get, the practice facilities, the amount of time you are able to put into preparation.

Getting games with PSG was just a confidence booster for me. Coming into the national camp, I didn't expect to get as much game time as I'm getting. But I'm glad the coach has so much confidence in me to get me out there and get me some games.

As a quarterback, you certainly don't want to hamstring your team in any way because - I know this more than anyone - you rely so heavily on those playmakers around you.

I will always be grateful to the coaches and staff of Cricket South Africa for their support through all these years.

Bobsled boils down to three things - your equipment, start, and drive. To win the Olympics requires all three.

It's been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it's personally, academically, or athletically.

I'll always be thankful to Villa for giving me the chance to play first-team football regularly.

The Olympics were something that was put in my path. I knew I was capable, I worked so hard for it, so I guess it's like, Why wouldn't I want to go to the Olympics? But it was never something that I was really, really dead set on. It was just what my coaches and everyone else forced upon me.

I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.

I have a wonderful English-language dialogue coach. All the time I have to speak English, he is with me. It is a double effort, because you have to say the words correctly and then act them.

'A' tours can be considered as a stepping stone to getting into the national team, so they are really important.